Financial Accountant
- Recruiter
- Focusrite Novation
- Location
- High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
- Salary
- Market Rate: depending on experience
- Posted
- 27 Jun 2019
- Closes
- 25 Jul 2019
- Job Title
- Financial Accountant
- Category
- Media / Entertainment
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Temporary
- Hours
- Full Time
Financial Accountant
Based: High Wycombe
Term: Full-time, Temporary (6-months)
Rate: Market Rate: depending on experience
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Take responsibility over the Group’s annual reports processes and lead the project, including:
- preparing IFRS statutory accounts and disclosures
- Ensure that the Group’s financial statements and annual report is delivered to a high standard with relevant disclosures in a timely manner
- Act as a key contact for external auditors and assist in the co-ordination of the annual and interim audit and ensuring that all auditor queries are satisfactorily addressed
- Preparing technical accounting memos for AC in line with IFRS
- Prepare the monthly consolidated accounts for the Group under IFRS
- Maintain the Group’s consolidation ledgers and prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations for that ledger
- Be responsible for the preparation of the single entity financial statements and to ensure that these are filed in advance of the deadline
- Preparation of corporation tax computations for all Group companies
- Liaise with external tax advisers
- Improving controls over financial data, to include reconciliation activities and development of interim solutions
- Assist in budget process
- Act as the Group’s technical accounting expert and assist the Management Accounting team with any queries on accounting treatment in line with IFRS
- Assisting the tax team with iXBRL tagging of the financial statements
- Preparing the Office for National Statistics Reporting on a timely basis and ensuring compliance with all deadlines
- Assist ad hoc projects as necessary
Experience and Skills Required
- Qualified ACA, ACCA or equivalent with audit background and strong technical accounting skills
- IFRS experience
- Group consolidation in multi-currencies experience
- Strong analytical and IT skills particularly in excel
- Experience of NetSuite or Adaptive will be advantage
- Be a strong, effective communicator, with a proven ability to build relationships
- Ability to communicate with the Board and non-financial individuals alike
- Have a high level of personal motivation and initiative with the ability to work to tight deadlines in a flexible and evolving work environment
- Actively seeks to improve processes making them more effective and efficient
- A high level of attention to detail
About Us
Incorporating the Focusrite, Novation and Ampify brands, we aim to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity.
As the number one selling audio interface brand worldwide, Focusrite has an illustrious and prestigious history. Alongside Novation and Ampify, the hardware and software that we develop plays a significant role in shaping the sound of modern music. From amateur to pro, our goal is to contribute to a world where we’ve made a difference creating opportunities for everyone and anyone to enjoy creating music.
We embrace evolution, and that means being open to new ideas. Our business has a flat structure and is setup to enable everyone to contribute and be heard at all levels and at all stages of product development. We encourage innovation, fresh thinking and are passionate about creating great products.
Benefits include flexible working, home working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, employee purchase scheme, share options, company music events, offsite company parties and free breakfast/lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions, hold making things easy days, encourage personal development training, run lunch and learns and facilitate external visits.
Focusrite is an equal opportunity employer, we are company of employees spanning a wide range of diverse backgrounds and we acknowledge that embracing our diversity is one of the keys to our future success.